Mexico, the end:

The first Ministerial Dialogue on Climate Change, Clean Energy and Sustainable Development gathering has drawn to a close. It's sponsor, the UK government, has declared it a success with the majority of the delegates in agreement about the urgent need to tackle greenhouse gas emissions.

All sounds rather positive, doesn't it?

However, there were a couple of rather depressing snippets in the source article:

The Under-Secretary of State for Global Affairs, Paula Dobriansky, told the BBC that the US was now acting urgently to tackle greenhouse gases - then later admitted that the country's emissions would continue to rise.

Another US delegate agreed that the world would face inevitable sea-level rise because of climate change. But when informally asked if the US opposition to mandatory CO2 cuts had changed in any way in response to a surge in concern over recent science of climate change, economically replied "no".

So, the biggest polluter, producing 25% of the CO2 emitted worldwide, can be counted upon to do bugger all. Not good.

And then there are the no-shows:

The Russians - who hope they will benefit from a warmer world - did not attend the Monterrey talks.

The Indians despatched only their concerned environment minister, instead of their unconcerned energy minister who has far more sway over India's emissions.

It is a strange and worrying thing to know that we are relying upon and entrusting politicians to look after the future of our planet; the one group of people that manage their lives around a 4-5 year election cycle.